When enterprises outsource maintenance of IT systems to service providers, thorough knowledge acquisition is critical to the success of the engagement. Program comprehension contributes significantly to acquiring knowledge of the IT systems. It is a ...

Code reading is an important skill in programming. Inspired by the linearity that people exhibit while natural language text reading, we designed local and global gaze-based measures to characterize linearity (left-to-right and top-to-bottom) in reading ...

Recent empirical studies identified an interest of software developers in high-level usage information, i.e. why and how end users employ a software application. Furthermore, recent empirical work found that developers of interactive applications put ...

Creating documentation is a challenging task in software engineering and most techniques involve the laborious and sometimes tedious job of writing text. This paper explores an alternative to traditional text-based documentation, the screencast, which ...

Links between issue reports and their corresponding commits in version control systems are often missing. However, these links are important for measuring the quality of a software system, predicting defects, and many other tasks. Several approaches ...

Developing software is a complex mental activity, requiring extensive technical knowledge and abstraction capabilities. The tangible part of development is the use of tools to read, inspect, edit, and manipulate source code, usually through an IDE (...

Software evolution history is usually represented at fine granularity by commits in software repositories, and at coarse granularity by software releases. In order to gain insights on development activities and on software evolution, the information on ...

The interlinking of commit and issue data has become a de-facto standard in software development. Modern issue tracking systems, such as JIRA, automatically interlink commits and issues by the extraction of identifiers (e.g., issue key) from commit ...